Re: Additional status codes in HTTP/1.1

On 2013-07-25 09:51, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
> Le Jeu 25 juillet 2013 08:18, Julian Reschke a écrit :
>> On 2013-07-25 07:24, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A user notified me that status codes 428, 429, 431, 511 introduced in
>>> RFC6585 by Mark & Roy are not mentionned at all in the current 1.1
>>> draft.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't we copy them there, or at least add a reference to RFC6585 so
>>> that implementers know that these codes exist ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Willy
>>
>> No, that would send the wrong message.
>>
>> The list in the spec is not exhaustive; there's an IANA registry for a
>> reason.
>
> But is there any good reason not to consolidate the codes that were known
> at the time?

As I said: it sends the wrong message. What's relevant is the IANA registry.

If you have a specific proposal to make *that* clearer in the spec, 
please go ahead.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2013 08:25:10 UTC